What do you think of mainstream press reporting on preprints?
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@michaelhoffman I'm just about to give a comment to a journalist on a recent preprint from another lab
@tuuliel @michaelhoffman Natural and inevitable. No imperative to respond, though.
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@michael_nielsen@michaelhoffman Reporting on preprints that haven't been peer-reviewed without peer comments is very dangerous -
@tuuliel@michaelhoffman In a tiny minority of cases. Not "very dangerous" for the great majority of papers. - 2 more replies
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@michael_nielsen@tuuliel@michaelhoffman whenever I think of a reason why this is bad, I realise the same is true of accepted papersThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@michael_nielsen@tuuliel@michaelhoffman for example, I know of preprints whose results are demonstrably untrueThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@michael_nielsen@tuuliel@michaelhoffman so press shouldn't cover the results? But accepted papers also contain nonsense.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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